The Independent Publishing Resource Center

This week’s featured zine, now on display at the IPRC zine library:

“Cooking with Mary Jane” by Nuqjatlh (1995). 

This week's featured zine, now on display at the IPRC zine library: 

"Seeking the Lotus: Issue #3" by Various (1999)

This week's featured zine, now on display at the IPRC zine library: 

"10 Weeds You Can Eat!" by Urban Edibles (2008)

IPRC Certificate Program in Poetry grad Julia Wohlstetter with two poems in the latest issue of Bodega.

IPRC Certificate Program in Poetry grad Jake Vermaas in Gramma Daily:                               “no not even piercing the window

with a waterfountain      not busting out as some old stoic trope or anything just straight home to an empty

Volume 1 of LIBERATION LITERACY is here! - to get involved in any way contact [email protected]! Keep your eyes out for 4 volumes per year! 

The IPRC’s latest collaborative project with incarcerated individuals at the Columbia River Correctional Institution (CRCI) in N. Portland is hot off the presses. This newsletter is in conjunction with the reading group and library maintained at the CRCI and will help to provide continuity and community visibility for the group. 

Read more about LL efforts here: https://liberationliteracy.wordpress.com/

M. Sabine Rear is a cartoonist, zinester, and the cute blind lady you gave your seat to on the bus. She makes comics about disability, gender & sexuality, professional wrestling and fine art. 

They prepped screens and provided resources for the public event where folks came together to digest, prepare for, and respond to political happenings through art-making (Pt. 2).

Katherine Spinella

Tony Marostica

Lauren Moran

Anna Knecht-Schwarzer

They prepped screens and provided resources for the public event where folks came together to digest, prepare for, and respond to political happenings through art-making (Pt. 1).

John Harrold

Daniela Ragan of Letra Chueca

Katherine Spinella

Jillian Barthold

Joe Galván

Samantha Cohen is a multimedia artist working in animation, installation, and comics in Portland, Oregon. Autobiographical narrative is central to her work where she explores themes of displacement, heartbreak, and the overall absurdity of human relationships.

In 2015 Samantha received an Oregon Arts Commission grant to participate in a residency at the Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY where she exhibited her animation in their 2016 summer exhibition. She has consecutively participated in the Portland Zine Symposium 3 years in a row under “Wet Socks” and completed her MFA at the University of Oregon in 2014. She is a current participant in Prequels 2016 Artist Incubator Program.

It’s that special time of the year again! Time for the Portland Zine Symposium!

The Symposium returns to the Ambridge Event Center at 1333 NE Martin Luther King Boulevard in the Lloyd District of lovely Portland, Oregon.

We’ll have special programming for the Portland Zine Symposium here at the IPRC at 1001 SE Division Street. Please come, say hello, and get yourself acquainted with hundreds of authors, writers, publishers, artists and makers. 

Bring a sack to put your newly collected zines/books in!

No, this isn’t one of those stupid Twitter stunts. 

On Indie Pride Day, we celebrate the millions of you who write, draw, create and publish every single day, without a literary agent, a social media agent, a cover artist, or a group of highly-paid editors. 

Publishing is not easy, clean or safe work to do. For most it’s a constant struggle to quell the inner voices of self-doubt that we all live with. 

To be able to make a really great work, it requires not only talent but grace, patience, kindness, and sometimes a lot of band-aids. It also requires pizza, coffee, vegan food, salads, soda, candy and pie for those moments when all you need is a break from the monotony of having to revise proofs for the third time.

It means having to be endlessly asked the question, ‘so what’s this about?’ when tabling at a con.

It means putting on antiseptic, gauze and bandages after mishandling an Exacto knife.

It means having to stay up late with friends and talk about starting a small press.

It means going to the beach when and if you can, and talking/thinking about your book project for the entire duration of the trip.

The world of self-publishing often brings us gems like the works of Chuck Tingle but also the world of My Immortal.

It also means having arguments about Papyrus, Comic Sans and Helvetica, all incredibly overused fonts of varying quality, but also about the merits of great hand-brushed typography. 

And of course, it means being unintentionally misclassified by cat ladies at local bookshops because your amazing graphic novel is somehow ‘erotic literature’.